How to undo "Discard" if not committed

Question

I accidentally clicked Discard while committing my changes. So I discarded the whole file but I wanted to discard only some hunk. But I haven't clicked on Commit, I did Cancel.

But now I cannot see my code in my file.

What can I do to undo the damn discard ?

Thanks in advance

Ghazanfar Mir · Answer 1 · 2018-04-25T12:57:02.467

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I know the post is too old but I faced the similar situation and accidentally clicked "Discard" in SourceTree and lost my changes.

Luckily I had the IDE opened, i.e. PHPStorm, at the time. Though it had already refreshed the file I was working on and loaded the old copy after Discard, however, I did "undo" on the working file in editor and it loaded back my changes.

I saved the file and got my lost changes back.

Just wanted to share in case others face the similar situation as mine and want to recover their changes with little presence of mind :D

edited Apr 25 '18 at 12:57

answered Oct 16 '15 at 15:33

Ghazanfar Mir

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Thanks! Same thing applies to IntelliJ. Accept when you get "undo reset from file?" question when you hit Ctrl+z. – Renatas M. Jul 26 '19 at 12:09
Thanks for saving my day! Works for `eclipse` as well. – Chammi Weerasekera Nov 15 '19 at 16:51

score 32 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 06 '22 at 20:26

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For me I'm using mac when I discard file and I want to get back

I open that file and open with TextEditor.app

on the top bar click File -> Revert To -> Browse All Version...

Select on last save version that you want hope it can save your time.

edited Jan 06 '22 at 20:26

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answered Apr 12 '18 at 04:40

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I tried this but TextEditor said I had no previous versions O_O – Deirdra Strangio Apr 09 '19 at 20:03
Because you did not save it before – Chea Sambath Jun 08 '19 at 01:13
Did work great for Swift file and Xcode...thank you :D – Tiago Mendes Jan 29 '22 at 11:53

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 30 '20 at 06:45

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Open this file in IDE and Press Command + Z

answered Jul 30 '20 at 06:45

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 24 '20 at 16:52

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In Intellij,

You can check the local history and revert back.

answered Mar 24 '20 at 16:52

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 30 '13 at 16:12

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I don't believe you can do anything. If you didn't commit the changes at any points, there is no way to get them back after you discard them.

answered Sep 30 '13 at 16:12

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Note there's a small exception here: if the changes got added to the index, but not committed, they are still recoverable. (See [answers](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10782978/recover-files-that-were-added-to-the-index-but-then-removed-by-a-git-reset).) – Asherah Oct 14 '16 at 04:54

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 07 '21 at 06:42

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In Eclipse,

Right-click the discarded file from Package explorer
Click 'Replace with'
Click 'Local History'
Compare dialog open with list of revisions
Select your revision and click 'Replace'.

answered Apr 07 '21 at 06:42

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 04 '14 at 10:06

There isn't any way to get your changes back via git or sourcetree as of sourcetree 1.8.1 for Mac; see the discussion here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREE-2090

(If you login to jira, you can also vote for this to be implemented!)

When I did this, I was able to get the changes back as the file was in my time machine backup.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 11 '21 at 11:30

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answered Sep 11 '21 at 11:30

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